Does having a high IQ makes you less creative?

regalia.com:

There was a man named Lewis Terman who believed that only knowing the IQ of a person could predict their success in life and this potential could be measured since childhood, that's why he sent his colleagues to California schools and gave the children a few IQ tests, identifing 1500 children whose IQs averaged 150 points.

Terman took for granted that these children were going to make great contributions to their disciplines in the future.

After 35 years Terman error was obvious, the majority had regular careers, and a surprising number ended up with careers that even Terman considered failures. Nor were there any Nobel Prize winners in his group of geniuses.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 21, 2013 2:28 AM
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